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Old 02-12-2017, 03:30 PM  
redwhiteandblue
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Originally Posted by thommy View Post
there is no way to push a site with such a curve only from search engines.
Again, these graphs and figures are meaningless. Garbage. Even Alexa say so themselves:

"There are limits to statistics based on the data available. Sites with relatively low measured traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. We do not receive enough data from our sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically meaningful. (However, on the flip side of that, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its rank.) This means that, for example, the difference in traffic between a site ranked 1,000,000 and a site ranked 2,000,000 has low statistical significance. Sites ranked 100,000+ may be subject to large ranking swings due to the scarcity of data for those sites. It is not unusual for such sites to decline to ?No data? Traffic Ranks, or to improve suddenly."

Let me just highlight the important part there - "We do not receive enough data from our sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically meaningful"

So, stop looking at Alexa as anything other than a VERY rough guide for anything over 100k. The fancy stats and graphs mean nothing.
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